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A cross-discipline contest for grades 7-12
Contest Packet FOR DIOCESAN COORDINATORS
2020 Contest Theme: “More than a Roof” - St. John Paul II
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What is this contest?
The Creating on the Margins contest is a tool for schools and parishes to engage young people in the
Gospel call of Luke 4:18 to bring good news to the poor, liberty to captives, sight to the blind, and
freedom to the oppressed. Through the contest, youth will learn about the efforts of the Catholic
Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) to address the root causes of poverty in the United States.
CCHD is the domestic anti-poverty program of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. You
can learn more about CCHD at USCCB.org/cchd.
Through participation in the contest, students in grades 7-12 can explore U.S. poverty and related
issues such as affordable housing, hunger, racial justice, or migration in the context of their faith.
They will also learn what empowered people, who are low-income, are doing in their communities to
make positive changes. Recognizing this connection with local anti-poverty efforts is vital to creating
meaningful understanding of poverty and engaging youth in actions to address it. Guided by what they
have learned, youth utilize their own creative skills to educate peers, family, friends and others about the
root causes of poverty, homelessness or another important issue highlighted in this year’s theme.
The contest is co-sponsored by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), the
National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) and the National Federation of Catholic Youth
Ministry (NFCYM). It is designed to be used across disciplines, and can be implemented in both
schools and parishes. Entries are evaluated on two components: the creativity of the work and the
essay answers submitted with the work to demonstrate an understanding of how we are called to
respond as disciples of Jesus to address poverty in our communities.
The artwork can be done in any medium (painting, song, video, PowerPoint, short story, poetry,
drama, or photography). The work must be original and must illustrate the 2020 annual theme, “More
than a Roof.” Their essay responses will be an opportunity to explore the underlying factors of the
national crisis in affordable housing and homelessness and how it affects their community.
A national grand prize of $500 will be awarded to a single entry, along with a $500 matching grant to a
CCHD funded group working to fight poverty, plus a trip to NFCYM’s annual conference for the national
award ceremony for the winner and a chaperone. One prize per grade level category (7-9 and 10-12)
will be awarded for national second ($375) and third ($250) place winners, along with matching grants.
Before beginning the contest, be sure to get in touch with your local diocesan contact for the contest
to find your local deadline and other important information. The annual national deadline is March 31,
2020 but your local deadline is usually in early March. Contest rules can be found at:
USCCB.org/YouthContest and USCCB.org/Concurso-Juvenil.
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What is the role of the diocesan office? Schools and parishes submit contest entries to a diocesan contact; they do not submit entries to
the national CCHD office directly. Therefore, someone in the diocese must receive the entries
and select a winner from each age group (grades 7-9 and 10-12) to send in for the national
contest. To allow time for local judging, dioceses should set a local deadline in advance of the
national deadline (March 31). The level of participation by each diocese can vary, depending on how
much time a diocesan contact has to devote to the contest:
• Full participation: Ideally, diocesan staff take full advantage of the contest as an educational
opportunity for both students and the wider community. Diocesan staff might choose to:
• Actively partner with other diocesan offices (e.g. religious education, youth ministry,
Hispanic ministry, Catholic schools offices, etc.) to promote the contest through their
communications and gatherings.
• Offer to arrange a speaker from a local CCHD group to speak at an assembly or youth
night at a participating school or parish.
• Form a committee from various diocesan offices, (parish and school volunteers, CCHD
committee members, etc.) to implement the contest or judge entries.
• Hold an event, such as a “Creating on the Margins Gallery,” to display work and judge
entries. Youth should be present to talk about their work. Dioceses may choose to award
as many prizes as desired (you can solicit prizes beforehand from local businesses),
**REMEMBER: only one (1) “grand prize” winner from each age category can
be selected to advance to the national competition.
• Have an award reception or assembly to honor the winner(s) and local CCHD groups
that inspired their work. Invite the (arch)bishop to say a few words. Be sure to invite local
media, such as the diocesan newspaper, to cover the event.
• Basic participation: A diocese that has the capacity to participate only minimally can simply ask
each participating school or parish to hold its own mini-contest, with each school submitting up to
two winning entries (one for each age group) to the diocese. The diocesan contact then
selects one winner from each age group to send on to the national competition.
Important: a contest entry form, including essay responses (see final pages of English or
Spanish packets) must be submitted to the national office with each age category grant prize
winning entry.
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Your Diocese can Participate— It’s Easy!
1. Advertise the contest
2. Receive the entries
3. Judge the entries
4. Honor the winners
5. Send the two winning entries to CCHD
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1. Advertise the Contest
Full participation
If you are able to take full advantage of the educational opportunities the contest
provides, you may want to:
• Adapt the contest materials (sample letter, text advertisements etc.) that can be
found at www.usccb.org/youthcontest (in FAQs section) and
www.usccb.org/concurso-juvenil (in preguntas frecuentes section) to reflect your local
contact information and deadline, which should be in advance of the national deadline
of March 31.
• Meet with your colleagues in other diocesan offices (e.g. religious education, youth
ministry, Hispanic ministry, Catholic schools office, social action, etc.). Make a plan to
collaborate around the contest together. Promote the contest at diocesan
gatherings/meetings of religious educators, principals, teachers, etc.
• Send communications via email or letter to target audiences such as:
parish social ministry coordinators
youth ministers
religious education directors
principals and teachers
campus ministers
• Offer to provide a speaker to schools or parishes that participate. Community
groups working to address the causes of poverty, such as those funded by CCHD,
are great sources for local speakers.
• Place an advertisement in your diocesan newspaper about the contest.
Basic participation
If you have the capacity to participate in the Creating on the Margins contest only
minimally, then simply send a communication about the contest to your contacts,
linking to this site for more info: www.usccb.org/youthcontest (or www.usccb.org/
concurso-juvenil for materials in Spanish). It’s best to send such a communication
several times.
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2. Receive the Entries
Full participation
To take full advantage of the contest, you may
want to:
• Follow up with contacts at schools and parishes
to make sure they have accessed the contest
materials and educational activity suggestions on
the contest web page.
• Offer suggestions to help them make the most of the
educational opportunity provided by the contest by
educating youth about poverty (or another issue related to
the annual theme), its causes, our Catholic response, and
the work of CCHD.
• Encourage schools and parishes to use the
creative work students develop to educate
school and parish communities about what
students have learned, before submitting the
entries to the diocese. For ideas, see the
suggestions in the Educator packet.
• Receive entries from each school by the local
deadline that you specified in Step 1.
Basic participation
If you are participating minimally, ask each participating
school or parish to hold its own mini-contest, sending you
only the top winner from each age category (grades 7-9 and
10-12).
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3. Judge the Entries
Full participation
• Solicit prizes from local businesses, such as gift
certificates from popular pizza or coffee shops, bowling
alleys, museums, movie theaters, etc.
• Decide prize categories. Although you can have only
one grand prize winner from each age category to pass
on to the national office, you can honor as many
winners as you like at the diocesan level. You may
decide to award prizes for additional categories that you
would like to recognize, such as best team project, most
compelling call to action, etc., or for different categories
of entry type (literature, audio, video, visual, etc.).
• Invite various stakeholders to act as judges. Bring together colleagues from
other diocesan offices, local Catholic artists, representatives from community
organizations, CCHD committee members, young adults, parish and school
volunteers, etc., to form a judging committee. Judging can be a fun process.
You can also take the opportunity to educate judges about your office’s work,
poverty in the U.S., our faith response, and the work of CCHD. If you expect to
receive any entries from Spanish-speaking participants, make sure you have
someone available to translate the entries and entry forms for the judges.
• Hold an event during judging, such as an “creative gallery,” to display youth
work and judge entries. Youth should be present to talk about their work. Don’t
forget to invite the local media.
Basic participation
If you are participating minimally, review the top winners of each school or parish
that were sent to you. Use the criteria for judging on page 10 to select your top
winner for each age category (grades 7-9 and 10-12).
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4. Honor the Winners Full participation
• Hold an award reception or event to recognize the
winner(s) and the local CCHD groups or anti-poverty
organizations that inspired the youth. The reception or
event can be a great opportunity to celebrate the
important work of your office and CCHD to fight poverty
and to educate and involve Catholics in the effort.
• If presenting winners with a financial award, consider
having a matching grant of $25 or $50 to a local CCHD
group or other organization doing work to fight the
causes of poverty. The winners can present the check
at the reception.
• Be sure to invite to the reception or event:
The (arch)bishop, to offer opening prayer and say a few words of
congratulations to the winners.
Everyone who has participated in the contest in any way (colleagues who
helped promote it, judges, participating schools and parishes).
Local media, such as the diocesan newspaper, to cover the event.
• Spread the good news! Write or suggest a feature article about the contest
and winners for your diocesan newspaper and for communications to Catholics
from various departments in the diocese.
Basic participation
Send a notification to each winner and his or her school or parish that the entry
has been selected to pass on to the national competition.
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5. Send winning entries to CCHD
Send the (arch) diocese’s winning entry for each
age category (grades 7-9 and 10-12) to:
ATTN: Jessica Zurcher
JPHD-USCCB
3211 Fourth Street Northeast
Washington, DC 20017
All entries MUST be postmarked by March 31!! You can direct
any questions to the national office at: [email protected]
Make sure that the official entry form, complete with parent or guardian
signature, is affixed to each entry. The official entry form is on the last
pages of the educator packet (English and Spanish).
The national CCHD office will judge entries
in late spring or early summer. One overall
grand prize winner will be selected.
Second and third place prizes will be
awarded for each age category.
The grand prize winner will be invited to
receive his or her prize on the main stage
of the annual conference sponsored by the
National Federation for Catholic Youth
Ministry.
Clare Hagan (right, with sister, Elyse), national
grand prize winner of the 2009 contest, plays
her winning song, “Complacency’s End,” for a
crowd of 22,000 youth at the National Catholic
Youth Conference.
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Criteria for Judging Entries
The following criteria are used for
judging by the national CCHD office. You
may wish to use similar criteria in
selecting your local winners.
The ideal entry will exemplify the
following qualities in either the entry
itself or the accompanying entry form:
1. Reflect artistic skill, creativity.
2. Exhibit an understanding of the systemic causes of racism, beyond the
individualistic causes (see Educator’s packet at www.usccb.org/
youthcontest or www.usccb.org/concurso-juvenil). It should be clear, in
both the essay responses and art work, that the contestant
understands that healing racism needs to go beyond charitable works
and integrate work for social justice.
3. Portray the marginalized as empowered persons capable of leading
efforts for change in their community as opposed to portrayal as
victims.
4. Illustrate that action to heal racism and poverty is a response to our
faith and the values of Catholic social teaching.
5. Exhibit learning about CCHD’s work and mission.
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Sample Rating Sheet
CCHD Creating on the Margins Contest – Please rate from 1 to 5 with 5 being the highest.
Judge may consider both the multimedia work and the descriptive text on the entry form.
# ________ Title of the piece: _______________________________________
Artistic skill, creativity and integration of essay 1 2 3 4 5
Understands the that addressing poverty and crisis with 1 2 3 4 5
unaffordable housing needs to be both on an individual and
systemic basis. Integrates their learning from essay
questions into multimedia piece.
Portrays the marginalized as empowered persons capable 1 2 3 4 5
of leading efforts for change in their communities. Focus on
working with the poor, not just for the poor.
Connects ending poverty with faith and Catholic teaching. 1 2 3 4 5
Learned about CCHD’s work and mission. 1 2 3 4 5
Total: ________
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